For a period of two weeks since November twenty-fourth, there were no murders recorded in the city, but shortly after midnight on Friday, the lifeless body of Baltazar Sarmeinto Ponce was discovered at his workplace. The Honduran watchman was shot to the head while on duty at Buca Shell Gas Station at two and a […]
In the case of the lifeless body of thirty-four-year-old Israel Chuc, a resident of Santiago Juan Layout in San Ignacio, police do not suspect foul play. Chuc’s body was discovered on Sunday morning in the vicinity of Branch Mouth Road. It had a faint trace of blood on the nose and his throat appeared to […]
The sexual assault of an inmate, an alleged rape that occurred at the Belize Central Prison, is being investigated by police and it is expected that the perpetrator of that crime will appear before the court by Tuesday. News Five first reported the incident last Tuesday, when the family of the alleged victim came forward […]
An Ex-B.D.F. soldier, along with a night division student at Gwen Lizarraga High School, were arraigned this morning in connection with the robbery of Gas Tomza on the George Price Highway, where the Manager was held at knife point and robbed of one thousand four hundred and eighty dollars on December seventh, 2017. The duo, […]
With Christmas fast approaching, Police say that business owners must be on the lookout for a fake money collector. That’s because there is a person going around targeting shops in the city. He pretends to make collections on behalf of various businesses using fake receipts. Police say there have been several reports from businesses on […]
On Friday, we reported that an arrest had been made by Mexican authorities in connection with the brutal slaying of San Pedro resident Felix Ayuso back in February. While Vildo Westby has been on the lam from the Belize Police Department since that incident over six months ago, details of his detention in Los Choapas, […]
A trio of men, including thirty-three-year-old Leon Earl Weir, Luwan Flowers and Edward Saldano, has been charged for a daring aggravated burglary in Fuller’s Alley in Belize City last week. The home invasion netted the thieves over seven thousand dollars in cash and personal belongings taken from a resident who had reportedly just collected rent […]
Sometime around two o’clock on Thursday afternoon, a pair of armed men entered a compound near mile two on the George Price Highway and proceeded to hold up employees of the gas depot at gunpoint. The thieves reportedly came under the guise of customers wanting to purchase butane, riding in on bicycles carrying a small […]
Twenty-six-year-old Rasheed Hyde is in custody tonight after surrendering himself to police earlier today. The Georgeville resident has been charged with attempted murder, dangerous harm and use of deadly means of harm, following a failed hit on Russell Hyde Junior, a close relative of his. On Sunday night, Hyde Junior was called out to a […]
He has been on the run for more than six months, but tonight wanted man Vildo Westby is in police custody. Westby was the prime suspect in the murder of HIV/Aids activist Felix Ayuso Junior, stabbed to death inside his home in San Pedro in February of this year. Police had issued a wanted poster […]
Twenty-four-year-old Russell Hyde Junior remains hospitalized after being shot multiple times during an attack on Sunday night. Police believe that the young businessman, who bears his infamous father’s namesake, was lured to a location in Santa Elena Town where he was ambushed. The investigation into the near fatal violence, however, has taken an interesting turn […]
Edwin Antonio Baires Hernandez was shot by police on Sunday afternoon in Teakettle Village, during a pursuit of the alleged robber. The twenty-year-old Salvadoran national was injured in the right leg when a service weapon assigned to one of the responding officers suddenly discharged. According to police, the shooting incident was accidental. Nonetheless, simultaneous criminal […]
Will the trio of officers that brutally assaulted twenty-year-old Randy Chambers on Monday be disciplined internally for physically abusing the young man while in the process of surrendering himself? The incident unfolded on Chambers’ family property and was caught on tape by a nearby surveillance camera. The video shows Chambers exiting one property and entering […]
Three residents from the Arizona area in Teakettle have been charged for illegal assembly at the Belmopan Police Station. Twenty-three-year-old Mervin Correa, twenty-two-year-old Guadalupe Guerra and fifty-five-year-old Plines Gutierrez were all charged in connection with a bonfire on Tuesday that blocked the entrance to the area. The burning tires was held as protest by residents […]
A nineteen-year-old resident in the village of Teakettle was shot and killed by the police who claim it was not intentional. But villagers are not persuaded that the shooting of Edwin Hernandez was accidental. This morning, they started a bonfire blocking access to the Arizona area to show their anger over what they deem to […]
There is another case involving violent police behavior this time in the Belize City. Three officers were captured on surveillance camera stomping on a young man even as he turns himself in to police in his family’s yard on Police Street Extension. There does not appear to be any justifiable reason for the attack on […]
A twenty-year-old inmate was buggered on two separate occasions by another prisoner at the Belize Central Prison in November. According to police, a prisoner reported on the twenty-ninth of November that he had been indecently assaulted by a cellmate on that same day and on the twenty-fourth. Police say that a medical examination was conducted […]
It’s been over two years since the infamous Russel Hyde Senior was taken down by gunmen at his Roaring Creek home in August 2015; his wife, Rosalie Galvez, was murdered in May after she was waylaid before the vehicle she was traveling in was sprayed by a lone gunman at the entrance to Belmopan, in […]
But was the shooting an attempt to take out Hyde Junior? And if so, who ordered the unsuccessful hit? Police have several persons detained for questioning, but no one has been charged for the crime. But Heladora Cruz says her grandson is no troublemaker and is not known to have enemies, despite what some may […]
The west turned out to be the most violent area over the weekend. On Sunday afternoon, police were called out to a house in San Ignacio town where the decomposing body of a man was found. Victor Spain’s body was discovered inside his home at about three o’clock; he had multiple stab wounds to the […]
One man is dead following a shooting at the hands of the police. The victim is unidentified and had moved to the village of Teakettle about four months ago. But over the weekend, the police shot the robbery suspect as he fled from the cops. There are conflicting reports as to how the incident unfolded […]
According to People Magazine, U.S. police authorities have identified a possible person of interest in the United States as part of their investigation into the unsolved double slayings of American Drew DeVoursney and his Canadian girlfriend Francesca Matus in the Corozal District in May. Drew’s mother, Char DeVoursney, told the magazine that a federal agent continues to investigate […]
Allegations of police brutality popped up again over the weekend in the west, but tonight, the injured men have been charged and arraigned for wounding and aggravated assault. Jeremy Gentle, Hener Cruz and Kennedy Gentle Junior were outside Blue Angels when they were attacked by the cops, including a female officer. From all accounts, the […]
Following their arraignment, the trio was given bail of two thousand dollars plus surety of the same amount. Jeremy’s mother, Winnel Harris, says that she was back and forth with the police because she wanted her son and nephew to get medical attention for the injuries they sustained from the alleged beat down by the […]
A duo suspected of having participated in the gruesome decapitation of fifty-six-year-old Hilton Wade, in Cotton Tree Village on Wednesday, has been charged with murder. Wade’s alleged killers are also from the same community where he has been residing for quite some time. In fact, it is reported that the rummager had come under threat […]
